Quotes About Backhanded Compliments

#1. You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.

Laurie R. King

#2. Daring greatly is not about winning or losing. It's about courage. In a world where scarcity and shame dominate and feeling afraid has become second nature, vulnerability is subversive.

Brene Brown

#3. I'm scared of screwing up my kids.

Tori Spelling

#4. In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.

Lee Iacocca

#5. She wore light dabs of face powder on her cheeks to hide the permanent track marks left by so many tears.

Leslye Walton

#6. Lord, teach me to be generous;
Teach me to serve you as you deserve;
To give and not to count the cost;
To fight and not to heed the wounds;
To toil, and not to seek for rest;
To labor, and not to ask for reward -
except to know that I am doing your will.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#7. With the touch of love, life becomes a land of love.

Debasish Mridha

#8. To be too busie gets contempt.

George Herbert

#9. Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.

Everett Ruess

#10. See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.

Philip James Bailey